What to treat a guest in a hurry. Original appetizers. Curd dessert with berries and cookies

Guests! It is so pleasant!
On weekends, we always have guests, but here's the problem - how to feed them?

I offer two options for snacks from sausages.

Why from sausages? Well ... it so happened that the guests brought sausages! We decided to fry the meat, but not to waste the product!

The recipes below make for two huge trays of appetizers! And you only need 4 sausages.

Recipe 1. Belyashi with sausage

egg -1 pc
chicken cube - 2 pcs (I salt instead of a cube and add spices for meat)
50 g yeast
200 ml warm water
1.5 st. spoons of sugar
flour on the eye so that the dough turns out like pancakes

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Cooking:

Knead the dough and let it rise.

At this time, cut finely:

2 large sausages

1 large onion

When the dough rises, add chopped sausages and onions to it, mix and fry in vegetable oil on both sides under the lid!

Recipe 2. Pizza economy option

loaf - 1 pc
sausage - 2 pcs
egg -1 pc
potatoes -1 pc
carrot -1 pc
onion -1 pc
cheese (can be processed) - 1 pc.
mayonnaise -2 tbsp. spoons
vegetable oil for frying

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Cooking:
Cut sausage and onion.
Grate potatoes and carrots.
Mix all ingredients.

Cut the loaf like it is for sandwiches.
We put the filling on the loaf:

Pour oil into a frying pan and heat up.
We put our sandwich with the filling down in the pan, fry, turn over and fry on the other side.

Serve with herbs or vegetables!

I foresee some resentment due to the use of not quite the right products.
Yes ... but for certain situations it is very tasty, fast and, most importantly, a lot!

And sometimes these are the main and ... the only components!

Believe! Sometimes I make pizza from a loaf when I have a "mouse hanged" in my refrigerator, but I need to feed everyone))

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Stuffed cabbage lazy

Lazy pigeon casserole. Yummy. Juicy. This one is being prepared lazy stuffed cabbage in the oven.

Homemade minced meat - 500 g
Chinese cabbage - 300 g
Onion - 1 pc. (120 g)
Carrot - 1 pc. (120 g) + 1-2 pcs. for lattice-decoration
Sweet red pepper - 0.5 pcs. (70 g)
Garlic - 1-2 cloves (5-10 g)
Rice - 1 cooking bag per pack (100 g)
Egg - 1 pc.
Mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. l. (25 g)
Dijon mustard - 1 tsp (10 g)
Vegetable oil (for frying and for greasing the mold) - 20 g
Sour cream (optional) - to taste
Salt - to taste
Pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Cut carrots, peppers and onions, finely chop the garlic. Fry the vegetables in a preheated pan with oil (about 10 minutes over medium heat).
2. Boil the rice until almost cooked (according to the instructions on the package).
3. Chop the cabbage.
4. Combine fried vegetables, rice, cabbage and minced meat. Crack an egg. Mix. Salt and pepper the mass.
5. Lightly spray the mold with oil and place the prepared mass firmly in the mold.
6. Cut the carrots into thin strips (you can use a vegetable peeler) and make a lattice on top, which you brush with mayonnaise and mustard.
7. Bake the lazy cabbage roll in the oven for 35-40 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
8. Cool the finished lazy cabbage roll for five minutes, cut into portions and serve with sour cream or other sauce as desired.

Birthday cake.

We will need:

Curd - 250 g
Sour cream - 100 g
Eggs - 1 pc.
Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
Cocoa - 1 tbsp. heaped spoon.
Flour - 4 tbsp. spoons
Gelatin - 15 g
Sugar
half a lemon
Salt
Soda
Vanillin

Cooking:

1. Korzh: beat the egg with 4 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, add vegetable oil, salt, soda, vanillin, cocoa, flour. Pour the dough into a greased form, bake at 180 degrees. When the cake is still warm, pierce the entire surface with a fork and saturate with syrup.

For syrup: lemon cut into small pieces directly with the skin, add 100 ml of water and 4 tbsp. spoons of sugar. Boil until the sugar is completely dissolved, cool, then strain.

2. curd cream: cottage cheese, sour cream, 100 g sugar, vanillin. Blend everything with a blender until smooth. Then, dilute the gelatin in 50 ml hot water, add to curd cream.

Put the cake in a mold with detachable sides, put the curd filling on it, smooth it and refrigerate for 40 minutes.

3. Jelly: I took it ready. Used half of the package, because. small cake - a form with a diameter of 22 cm. Put slices of bananas on the curd layer, pour jelly. Send to the refrigerator for at least three hours. Better at night.
I wrote longer than the cake is being prepared - very simple and fast!

Sausage puffs

Another quick recipe: ready-made puff pastry cut into small squares, brush with egg, put a piece of sausage on top. Bake at 200 degrees for literally 5-7 minutes.

Pie "Sand lattice" with apricots

Delicate, crumbly, melting in your mouth. Light sourness gives the dough an even richer taste, and the apricot flavor drives people around crazy. Such temptation is impossible to resist.

We will need:

200 g soft butter;
200 g of sugar;
vanilla sugar;
3 eggs at room temperature;
10 g baking powder;
550 g flour;
apricots.

cooking;

Beat warm butter well. Gradually add sugar, vanilla sugar. Slowly add all the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly with a mixer.

Add flour mixed with baking powder and knead a soft, tender dough. Divide it into 2 parts.

Put one part in a baking sheet, form high sides. Lay apricots on top.

Roll out the second part, cut into not very thin (otherwise they will tear during baking) strips, and cover the apricots with a “grid”.

Put the remaining strips on top of the sides, and press down a little with a fork. Bake the cake at 180*C for about 30 minutes.

Are you planning a celebratory dinner? What products do you need to stock up on? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Many people think that a full meal should consist of a first course, a second course and dessert. But housewives cannot always please their loved ones with such an impressive assortment.

If you wish, of course, you can easily prepare a stunning dinner in just a couple of minutes, if you know all the necessary recipes by heart. Next, you will get acquainted with such magnificent dishes that will fill the body with all the necessary nutrients. With the help of them you will be able to surprise guests and relatives with your grace and beauty.

with cheese and vegetables

For a festive dinner, you can cook an amazing zucchini cake. You will need 150 g of hard cheese, 3 carrots, 2 eggs, one zucchini, 5-7 tbsp. l. flour, garlic, one onion, salt and mayonnaise.

First, grate the zucchini coarsely and drain the juice. Drive an egg into the resulting substance, pour flour, salt. Knead the dough from the resulting mixture and fry the pancakes in a frying pan greased with oil.

Next, you need to rub the carrots, chop the onion. Mix these ingredients and fry. Add grated cheese, pressed garlic, mayonnaise to the resulting mass. You can also add greens. Spread pancakes with this filling. Set the zucchini cake with cheese and vegetables aside for a couple of hours to soak.

Blue cheese fried in Czech style

You will have an unforgettable festive dinner if you serve Czech recipes on the table. So, you should have 200 g of white mold cheese, 100 g of breadcrumbs, two eggs.

First, cut the cheese into 1cm cubes. Break the eggs into one bowl, beat them. In another, pour breadcrumbs for breading. Cheese cubes must first be bathed in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs, and so on a couple of times. You need to fry them over high heat for forty seconds on each side.

Homemade lard

No holiday dinner is complete without homemade lard. You should have 600 g of brisket, seven cloves of garlic, black pepper in grains and ground, salt.

To make delicious lard, you need to grind garlic with salt, allspice and black pepper. Spread the lard with the mixture obtained and wrap it in plastic a couple of times. Try not to let air get inside.

Leave the product to marinate overnight. In the morning, pour water into a saucepan, put bacon in it and cook for several hours. Then let it cool down in water. Then send the amazing lard prepared at home to the refrigerator.

Cupcakes with white chocolate and berries

You will succeed in a festive dinner for guests if you serve unusual muffins on the table. To prepare them, you need to buy 400 g of berries, flour (260 g), milk (250 ml), sugar (150 g), White chocolate(200 g), one egg, sunflower oil (125 ml). You should also have ¼ tsp. salt, baking powder (3 tsp), lemon juice (2 tsp).

Pour liquid products into one container: milk, eggs, butter, lemon juice. Stir until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Cut the white chocolate into small pieces. Put dry products in another container: sugar, flour, baking powder and chocolate. Reserve half of the prepared chocolate for decoration.

Mix the dry ingredients and pour them into the liquid mixture. Mix them gently. Combine berries with dough.

Place paper in the mold and fill it with dough to the top so that a pretty dome is obtained during the baking process. Decorate cupcakes with white chocolate. You need to cook them at a temperature of 180 degrees for twenty minutes. When the products become golden, remove them from the oven.

sweet sausage

What else can be served for a festive dinner? The menu should be varied. Try to cook the sweet sausage "Wizard of the Emerald City". Buy 350 g of condensed milk, 200 g of marmalade, 700 g of cookies, 200 g of butter.

Melt butter at room temperature and beat it, slowly mixing with condensed milk. Grind cookies in a meat grinder and cut marmalade into small pieces. Combine cookies with cream and marmalade, wrap the resulting mass in a special paper, forming an oblong shape. Send the sweet loaf to the cold. When it hardens, cut it into pieces and put on a dish.

Fish baked with potatoes and tomatoes

Oh, this festive dinner ... For guests, you can bake fish with potatoes and tomatoes. To do this, you will need 600 g of fish, three tomatoes, half a glass of olive oil, three onions, three sprigs of celery, two sprigs of thyme, ground black pepper and salt. Cut the vegetables into cubes, clean the fish from scales, cut off the gills, fins, gut it and rinse it. Place the vegetables in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir with your hands. Place the fish on top of the vegetables and garnish with tomato rings on top.

Next, sprinkle everything with thyme, pepper and salt, pour over olive oil. Cover the mold with foil. Bake fish with tomatoes and potatoes at 200 degrees for 40 minutes. Then remove the foil and cook the dish for another fifteen minutes.

Cake "Royal"

What's good about a holiday dinner? Its menu is amazing. Serve the cake "Royal" with dried fruits, and your holiday will be remembered for a long time. For the test, you must prepare the following products: one and a half glasses of flour, three eggs, one and a half glasses of sugar and the same amount of sour cream. And also buy half a glass of prunes, half a glass of poppy seeds and the same amount of raisins. In addition, you must have baking powder (3 tsp).

Products for the cream: butter (200 g), boiled condensed milk (one can) and fruits. In order to make the first cake, combine and stir the egg, flour, sugar, poppy seeds, sour cream, soda slaked with vinegar. Also make the second cake (only with raisins) and the third - with nuts and prunes. Bake and refrigerate them. Then beat the butter with condensed milk and spread the cakes with the resulting cream. Decorate the cake with dried fruits.

Dessert

Many people ask what to cook for a festive dinner. Treat your loved ones with a strawberry dessert "Tiramisu Trifle". Buy 980 g of strawberries, 225 g of mascarpone cheese, 170 g of dark chocolate, 100 g of pudding mix, 85 g of cookies, two cups of whipped cream, the same amount of strong coffee and one and a half glasses of milk.

Chop the strawberries, reserving one for garnish. Dilute the pudding mixture in milk and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of minutes. Beat the mascarpone cheese with a mixer until creamy. Add whipped cream, pudding and coffee to it.

Dip each cookie in coffee and place 1/3 in a flat-bottomed bowl. Top with a third of strawberries, a third grated chocolate, the same amount of Mascarpone cream. Do this in two layers. Finish off with mascarpone and chocolate. Decorate a strawberry tiramisu trifle with a whole strawberry. Send for 5 hours in the cold, preferably at night.

Exceptional dishes

Without a doubt, every one of your acquaintances wants to come to you for a festive dinner. Recipes with photos can be found in our short cookbook article.

Many people like to cook simple holiday dishes that are uncomplicated and do not require much time. A bachelor who wants to please his beloved, experienced hostess or a girl who wants to learn culinary science can easily cope with the following recipes:

1. Pork ham in foil. Here it is important to keep the meat overnight in the refrigerator and make a quality marinade. You need to buy 1 kg pork meat on the bone, one orange, six cloves of garlic, 1 tsp. olive oil, dry mustard seeds (1 tsp), spices for roasting meat (1 tsp), salt, basil. Make slits in the pork with a sharp knife, and place a clove of peeled garlic in each. Salt the meat, sprinkle with spices, basil. Cut off three rings from the orange, and squeeze the juice from the rest. Mix the juice with olive oil and pour the resulting marinade over the meat. Place orange rings on it and put the product in the refrigerator for 10 hours. In the morning, lay the marinated pork on a sheet of foil, pour marinade over it, sprinkle with mustard. Wrap the meat completely in foil and place in a small baking dish with sides. Bake pork for 1 hour at a temperature of 160 degrees. Then slightly open the top of the foil and leave the meat in the oven for another 10 minutes. To get a nice crust, brush the pork with honey. Next, put the boiled pork on the table, where it should cool. Wrap cold meat in foil and put in the freezer for half an hour. As a result, the boiled pork will become tight and will be perfectly cut.
2. What is Olivier Salad? No delicious holiday meal is complete without this amazing dish. Take advantage of the simple classic recipe. For 4 people you need to have 6-8 potatoes, two carrots, 6 eggs, 250 g of boiled sausage, a jar of green sweet peas, a bag of fatty delicious mayonnaise. Boil eggs, carrots and potatoes, drain and cool. Cut the food into cubes and pour into a basin, add mayonnaise, herbs and mix. Salt, pepper and refrigerate. It is not forbidden to replace sausage with meat, chicken, tongue or quail - as you like.

name day

The birthday dinner menu should be varied. Compiling it from the hostess requires tremendous efforts, because you want to surprise guests with new dishes, shapes, tastes and at the same time try not to collapse the family budget. Naturally, you are an economical hostess, but for a celebration you need to cook at least a couple of dishes from delicious, expensive products.

When coming up with a menu, try not to cook several mayonnaise puff salads, but rather conjure over one unusual one. Other salads can be made from fresh vegetables or just serve tomatoes and cucumbers in the form of a beautiful cut.

Amazing food

You do not know what to cook for a festive dinner? For a birthday, serve a salad with smoked pink salmon and cheese. You need to have half a head of Chinese cabbage, soft cheese (150 g), smoked pink salmon (150 g), sour cream (100 ml), ground black pepper and salt.

Remove the bones from the fish and cut it into thin bars. Chinese cabbage cut into strips. Lightly freeze the cheese and grate it on a coarse grater. Mix all ingredients with salt, pepper and sour cream.

delicious dish

What else can you diversify a festive dinner? For a birthday, many people prepare layered salad in glasses. Buy 700g shrimp, 100g feta cheese, one cucumber, one avocado, one tomato, and a lemon. For the sauce, you need to have mayonnaise (200 g), ground black pepper and sour cream (100 g).

Boil the shrimp and clean. Cucumber and tomato cut into cubes. Cut the avocado and remove the pit. Sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice so that it does not acquire dark color. Cut the cheese into small cubes. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise and ground pepper. In four transparent tall glasses, lay the salad in layers, pouring sauce over each - first the shrimp, then the tomatoes, then the cucumbers, the avocado slices and the shrimp again. Make a pattern of cheese cubes on top.

"Hat of Monomakh"

Cooking a festive dinner is not an easy task. Surprise your guests with layered salad "Monomakh's Cap". You should have three potatoes, 300 g of boiled meat, three eggs, a couple of raw carrots, 200 g of cheese, one glass of walnuts, mayonnaise. For decoration, use one pomegranate and canned green peas.

Boil potatoes in uniforms, eggs and cool. Grind hard cheese, eggs, potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater. Walnuts and cut the meat with a knife. Mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise separately and, forming a cone, put on a plate in layers in this order: potatoes, meat, eggs, nuts, carrots, cheese. Lubricate the delicious mountain with mayonnaise and garnish with pomegranate seeds and green peas.

vintage snack

You still do not understand what should be the menu of the festive dinner? Birthday is an amazing holiday. Feed loved ones with a salty tongue snack. To prepare this old recipe, you need to buy one medium beef tongue, one head of garlic, rock salt (3 tablespoons), sugar (1 tablespoon).

Mix sugar, salt and crushed garlic. Wash your tongue, pat dry and roll in this mixture. Wrap it in a plastic bag, remove air and tie tightly. Put the tongue in a bowl and press down with a stone to release the juice. It should lie down at room temperature for one night, and then put it in the refrigerator for 10 days.

Turn your tongue daily so that it salts evenly. After the expiration date, take it out of the package and put it in a container with cold water. Put the product on fire and cook until fully cooked for about two hours (cooking time depends on the size of the tongue). Put the finished delicacy in ice water for a couple of minutes, then remove the skin and refrigerate. Wrap it in plastic and store in the refrigerator until the start of the celebration. Before serving, cut the tongue into thin slices.

hot food

Are you planning a celebratory dinner? Take pictures of the dishes that you have prepared yourself! Serve with boiled potatoes with butter or mashed potatoes, crumbly rice, lots of vegetables and fresh herbs. Delight your guests with beef rolls. They can be prepared from 1 kg of veal or beef pulp, lard (100 g), sour cream (500 ml), salt, tomato paste (3 tablespoons), ground black pepper.

Rinse the meat and freeze in the freezer. Cut it into thin plates across the fibers. Beat off on both sides, put on the table, pepper and salt on one side. Cut the lard into long bars 5 mm thick. Put a bar on the edge of the meat plate and roll it into a roll. Do this with all meat. Pour some water into the pan, put the rolls and pour sour cream sauce. For its preparation tomato paste and mix sour cream and salt. Put the workpiece on low heat and simmer under the lid for about two hours.

Pork and cheese

Every housewife should know the recipes for a festive dinner. Surprise your loved ones with pork and mushrooms. This dish is prepared from 1 kg of minced pork, one egg, butter (50 g), three onions, milk (20 ml), fresh champignons (400 g), hard cheese (100 g), half a loaf of white stale bread, salt, ground black pepper, wheat bran or breadcrumbs.

Soak in milk for 30 minutes and finely chop one onion. Grind the squeezed bread together with minced meat in a meat grinder. Add pepper, salt and stir. To prepare the filling, cut two onions, cheese and mushrooms into cubes. Do the same with butter and put it in the refrigerator.

Fry the onion in sunflower oil so that it acquires a golden color. Add mushrooms to the pan with onions, which need to be fried until tender. Pepper and salt to taste. Divide the minced meat into 8 parts, make cakes from it. Put the filling, cheese and a piece of butter in the center of each. Blind oval cutlets, roll them in breading and fry on both sides until cooked.

"Kish"

Don't be afraid, everyone will love your holiday dinner. The dishes listed above will make your celebration unforgettable. Serve your guests with a quiche with shrimp and pink salmon. You need to have half a kilo of flour, frozen butter (300 g), two eggs, salt, sour cream (2 tablespoons). The filling is prepared from 300 g of boiled shrimp, hard cheese (200 g), smoked pink salmon (300 g). For filling, buy 4 eggs and cream (400 ml).

Chop the butter with a knife, add salt, flour and rub the mixture into crumbs. Add sour cream and eggs and knead the dough. It should lie down for about thirty minutes. Then put it in a pie dish, and knead with your hands so that you get the sides. Cover the workpiece with oiled parchment, and place a flat plate a little smaller than the form on top of it. Place oppression on top of this structure. This is necessary so that the dough does not rise during baking. Bake it for 30 minutes in an oven heated to 200 degrees.

Put peeled shrimp and diced fish on the prepared base, sprinkle with cheese. Combine cream with eggs and beat. Fill the cake with the resulting air mass and put it back in the oven. Bake the delicacy for about 30 minutes.

Perhaps you will add some dishes to the festive dinner menu. Homemade food has always been considered the most delicious. But it happens that guests are on the doorstep, and recipes cause an attack of laziness and panic. Attach the phones of trusted suppliers of sushi, pizza and Ossetian pies to the refrigerator. You will prepare to receive guests very quickly, and they will not remain hungry.

Evening. You relax after a working day on your favorite sofa with a TV remote control and a cup of aromatic tea.

Ring-ring! The guests have come! With cake and good vibes. Holiday? Of course, a holiday! After all, only the closest friends come here. Those for whom the most important thing is communication with you, and not an ideal feast according to all the rules, but some quick meal will still be needed.

Each hostess has a different understanding « quick recipe» . Someone barely has time to unroll a dried piece of cheese, and some sorceresses manage to cook a combined hodgepodge while the guests wash their hands.

The call to use what you have in the refrigerator can also be interpreted in different ways. Why do I need a quick salad recipe that includes quinoa (such a cereal), rice vinegar, sesame oil and chilled king prawns? If the latter appear in my refrigerator, then they certainly will not wait for random guests.

I did in a way "reminder sheet" those snacks that can be prepared in a few minutes by listening to last news friends. It makes no sense to paint these quick recipes in detail - they are too simple and familiar to any adult.

Guests on the doorstep: quick recipes

At the end of the article I will a list of products with a long shelf life that simply must be in the refrigerator when an unexpected guest crosses the threshold of your house.

So. Here is my reminder
(click on the links, many quick recipes will open :-)):

1. You can eat anything with melted cheese. When guests are on the doorstep, recipes fast food are remembered with great difficulty, so hot sandwiches are a real salvation for such an occasion. The only constant ingredient is cheese, so some hard variety in an impenetrable shell (such as Olterman) with a shelf life of up to 8 months should always be available. On bread of any freshness, put pieces of boiled chicken or meat, circles of sausages or sausages, slices of tomato or just ketchup, thin onion rings or pickles. You can parsley-dill for beauty. Three cheese on top, and put in the microwave for a minute and a half.

Cheese can be eaten in its original form.

2. "Italian Dinner" Perhaps this is the leader among quick recipes and the rest of mankind. A pack of quality spaghetti and a factory-made twist with vegetable gravy. Do not overcook the pasta, do not overheat the gravy. Sprinkle with fresh herbs. Everybody! Beautiful plates, tablecloths, candle-napkins. Red wine in glasses. Oh…

3. "Russian vodka, black bread herring". It is also an option. Herring comes in iron cans. Let it lie in the bins in such a case. You can also put lightly salted trout on fresh oil. Or red caviar. For a leisurely conversation, young potatoes will quickly cook. And if you have a piece of slightly salted salmon hidden in the refrigerator ...

4. "In the morning - scrambled eggs, in the afternoon - scrambled eggs, at night - scrambled eggs". This is where fantasy kicks in. Maybe just in half boiled eggs put a few eggs, you can mix the yolks with cod liver. Omelet with herbs, tomatoes and onions, cheese, ham, green beans (or other deep-frozen vegetables), etc. Just fried eggs, after all. The main thing is beautiful, fast and satisfying. Another option is to let the omelet become "envelope" for cheese, ham and vegetables that you have. Here is a photo.

5. Frozen puff pastry treats. This quick recipe takes some skill. Rehearse once so as not to experiment in front of guests. Toppings can be salty and sweet. The dough defrosts very quickly. Make, for example, small triangles with cheese. 20-25 minutes in the oven, and you will have a wonderful.

6. Shrimps are like candy. Having a pack of frozen shrimp in the freezer never hurts. If there is no desire to mess around, just boil it with well-salted water with spices. And if, after a short boil, they are fried in tomato-garlic sauce ... Guests are always delighted with such a quick recipe.

If your guest is going to come alone, and even in a romantic mood ... Here is a very quick and unpretentious one (this vegetable is now in any vegetable stall, no more exotic than a radish).

7. Quick salads. You will find a huge number of recipes on the Internet, it is difficult to advise something specific. Better decide what exactly you will cook in an emergency. Let the cupboard contain canned fish, crabs or cod liver, champignons in own juice, green pea, sweet corn, etc. In the refrigerator - crab sticks, ham, cheese, mayonnaise, some vegetables.

Just in case, here's a cheat sheet for you:.

8. Hearty hot dessert. This is my weakness... Cherry dumplings with sour cream for tea... If you had the patience to stick and freeze in advance, you are the hero of our time. You can also find a decent one in the store. After all, inside these dumplings there is nothing but cherries and sugar.

9. Lavash with stuffing. Personally, I like the hot version. I wrap feta cheese, diced tomatoes and greens in sheets of Armenian lavash. Fry on both sides in a dry frying pan. Someone lubricates with butter, someone loves crispy pita bread with hot filling. .

10. For the most helpless It also happens - guests are on the doorstep, recipes for quick meals cause panic or a sharp attack of laziness. Hang the phones of proven pizza, sushi and Ossetian pies suppliers on the refrigerator. Not always fast and tasty, but the guests will not remain hungry.

Now the promised list of products for making quick recipes.

Grab one of these items from the store, and the “guest at the door” situation will no longer scare you.

• Juices, sparkling mineral water, good white and red wine, liqueurs.
• Canned vegetables (corn, peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, olives).
• Ketchup, mayonnaise, ready-made seasonings for spaghetti.
• Frozen shrimp, crab sticks, vegetable mixes deep-frozen, dumplings, puff pastry.
• A jar of caviar (even pollock), canned fish.
• Cheese in a cardboard or plastic package, a small whole head of cheese.
• Ice cream in a large package.
• A beautiful tablecloth, wine glasses, bright napkins, candles.

Before the onset of this significant date, the heart invariably stops with joy in anticipation of gifts, fun, friendly meetings. But some people don't like their birthdays for various reasons. Someone due to the fact that they are at least a year, but they are getting older. And some, especially economical subjects, are busy calculating how much it will cost them, and from the announcement of the estimate, their mood deteriorates. Life so develops that everyone is periodically forced to save. But this is not a reason to deprive yourself of the holidays. Therefore, we will try to answer the question: how to inexpensively set the table for a birthday?

Where is the tradition from?

When did people start celebrating birthdays? There are two versions. According to the first, the tradition was based on Roman rites in honor of the gods. The pagans laid plentiful tables, congratulations sounded, various gifts were given. This hypothesis is more recent. And the second version says that the roots of the tradition go back to ancient times, when there were beliefs about the special vulnerability of a person on his birthday. It was believed that any wishes or curses have a double effect on such dates. Therefore, with offerings, ancient people tried to appease the spirits so that they would not harm the newborn.

Name day of Mukha-Tsokotukha

Gradually they switched to personalities, but for a long time no one paid attention to the date of the birth of children and women. The first woman whose birthday was celebrated on a grand scale was the beautiful Cleopatra. It was not customary for the common people to record and celebrate women's birthdays.

The Greeks and Egyptians often and pathetically celebrated the birth dates of the gods, as well as the pharaohs and kings. Sometimes, on the occasion of the birth of the pharaoh, prisoners were released from prisons. In ordinary families, it was practiced to celebrate only the birthday of the head of the family.

The position of Christianity on this issue at first was extremely tough: life is given to a person to atone for sins, so he is not up to fun. Later, the church softened somewhat and allowed baptisms with name days. But the Soviet system was against name days and, figuratively speaking, trampled on the tradition with its iron boot. Even the famous birthday fly was ordered to be removed from the works of old Korney.

By the way, name days were very popular in Rus': they baked a loaf, brewed delicious beer, cooked pies and sang songs. Of course, the peasant holidays were much more modest than the royal ones: sometimes the amount spent on the name day of the crowned person could be used to build several luxurious palaces.

Surprise Cake

It is clear that ordinary people have always dreamed of deliciously and inexpensively setting the table for a birthday. But what's a holiday without cake? Few people know where this indispensable attribute of birthdays came from. If you dig deeper, it is believed that the idea itself came again from the times of paganism, when sacred altars were lit in pitch darkness in honor of the ancient gods.

But the Germans introduced the tradition. They created a common ritual of celebration children's day birth. For this they prepared tasty pie, in which various iconic objects were hidden, candles were placed on top according to the number of years of the hero of the occasion and, having woken up the child with the dawn, they sang healthy songs to him. It is noteworthy that the cake was not eaten until evening, until the whole family gathered at the table. The child had to think of something cherished and blow out the candles at a time. Familiar, right?

Jam Day: their manners

In different countries, such holidays are treated differently. The most reverent attitude of the majority of the inhabitants of the planet to anniversaries. But some nationalities celebrate just odd or non-circular dates. Traditions are also different: in Italy, spaghetti will be an indispensable dish on the table of the birthday boy (so that he lives long), and in Latin America they always break a piñata with gifts loaded into it.

The British, who have lived to be 80 years old or more, are personally congratulated by Her Royal Majesty. But the most unlucky birthday people live in Japan: instead of children, their parents are congratulated, and it is generally customary to give gifts only after the age of 60.

Economy table rules

If the hostess-birthday girl nevertheless decided to gather loved ones under her hospitable roof, but wants to measure needs with opportunities, then there is a way out.

Setting a table for a birthday at home is inexpensive, very tasty, and even so that it looks presentable - an absolutely doable task. To do this, you must follow the simplest rules:

1. The menu must be thought out in advance. It's good to delve into cookbooks, look through magazines. You need to pay attention to the ingredients: cheaper to buy seasonal products, so the menu is selected accordingly. If the hostess wants to set the table for her birthday at home inexpensively, recipes with photos are especially welcome, because you can immediately see how the dishes will look on the table.
2. Accurately calculate the number of invitees (considering, of course, a few uninvited guests). You can cook hot portions, but in this case, the birthday girl will not have peace. It’s better to make a common dish with a margin.
3. The first courses in the birthday menu, as a rule, are not included. The exception is exotic gourmet soups.
4. If a traditional celebration is planned, then it is quite possible to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively. Recipes budget meals can be found in any source to your taste. But cold and hot appetizers, main course (meat or fish), salads and dessert must be included.

Alcoholic drinks are also an important attribute of the festive table, as they increase the degree of mood, pardon the pun.

Modest cut and luxurious roll

Many families adhere to classic long-term traditions and set the table with favorite dishes that guests know by heart. But this approach has its own benefit: people will never leave hungry and are guaranteed to be satisfied.

Meat, cheese and vegetable cuts belong to the standard cold appetizers. This classic approach has never let anyone down. The main thing is the variety of varieties in the composition of the cut. Everyone knows that it is with cold appetizers that any feast should begin. This is the so-called organizational moment: after all, it is useless to hope that no one will be late. And while waiting, the rest of the guests will be able to eat well so as not to drink on an empty stomach.

For those who want to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, Korean snacks are perfect: get a little bit of everything (pre-tasting the dishes) and put them on the table in small plates. Homemade pickles and marinades are also in great demand among guests.

There are express recipes for the dedicated on how tasty and inexpensive to set the table for a birthday: a cold roll and an appetizer with the romantic name "Raffaello". The first is prepared as follows:

• a sheet of thin pita bread is smeared with a mixture that includes: mayonnaise, garlic, dill and grated cheese;
• top with thinly sliced ​​ham;
• then the steps are repeated;
• roll pita bread in the form of a roll;
• wrap the product in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Serve such an inexpensive, but original dish by cutting it with a very sharp knife into portioned pieces.

Appetizer "Raffaello" will require the following ingredients:

• crab sticks;
• garlic;
• hard cheese;
• mayonnaise;
• cashews (but you can use walnuts to save money).

A walnut kernel is rolled into a mixture of cheese, fat mayonnaise and garlic. Next, rubbed on a fine grater frozen crab stick. In grated crab meat it crumbles with a surprise: the dish is ready. Including with the help of this recipe, you can reveal the secret of how to quickly and inexpensively set the table for a birthday. To make such balls look festive, they are laid out on fresh lettuce leaves.

You can also use seasonal dishes. A budget option The menu is compiled during the summer. For example, eggplant tongues or fingers. The second option is more expensive, since it has very little, but meat is included.

Delicious hot appetizers

The hostess, asking herself the question of how tasty and inexpensive to set the table for her birthday, should not forget about hot snacks. They follow the cold when everyone has gathered at the table and it's time for the first toasts. They should not be many, and they are prepared shortly before serving. This is a light meal with small portion sizes. An example of such a snack can be easy-to-cook meatballs:

• traditional, minced meat is made, with the addition of a raw egg;
• the finished layer of dough is rolled out and cut into strips;
• meat balls are wrapped with threads of dough like a ball;
• the dish is baked in the oven until cooked.

This appetizer looks very presentable.

Now it is not a problem for the hostess to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, the recipes just jump out of magazines, cookbooks, and Internet portals. Here, for example, is a dish similar to julienne, which is prepared ridiculously quickly, but tastes simply charming. We present to the attention of the housewives champignons in sour cream sauce.

The dish is prepared like this:

• peeled mushrooms are added to carefully sautéed onions and carrots and stewed for about 10 minutes;
• later sour cream, seasonings are laid and everything is stewed until cooked.

The simplest dish can be made beautiful if you sprinkle it with grated cheese and herbs on top, and serve it in ceramic pots.

Salads for a date

If you set out to set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively, then you can’t do without salads. For a traditional approach, Olivier, herring under a fur coat, Mimosa or Caesar are suitable. You can use the simplest option, which will require products such as:

• green pea;
• ham;
• pickled champignons;
• mayonnaise.

This salad is suitable when guests are literally on the doorstep or come unexpectedly. After all, nothing needs to be prepared in advance, all the components are simply mixed.

Salads with seafood can look original, they especially appeal to the female half of the guests.

Main meal serving

Highly important point when, after an artistic exclamation: “Fedya! Game!" on the table appears, for example, a baked appetizing duck stuffed with dried apricots and apples. But the question was how inexpensively to set the table for a birthday, what does the game have to do with it? So it is not necessary to bake the duck, the same can be done with chicken. You can use not the whole bird, but its legs or wings. If you marinate them well, and even roll them in honey, you get an excellent dish with a delicious crispy crust.

In general, before planning the main serving, you need to ask yourself what your guests like more: meat or fish? Only then can you prepare the coveted main course. Of course, fish is several times more troublesome than meat, but either pike will become truly festive and will be remembered by guests for a long time. It is not bad to serve medallions or steaks to the festive table. One thing can be said with certainty - meat must be present on the table.

As a side dish for main dishes, you should choose potatoes in any form: mashed potatoes, french fries, fried, boiled with herbs.

What about compote?

To set the table for a birthday inexpensively, recipes are not all that a hostess needs. Drinks are also important. Of course, you can not do without compotes, juices, carbonated drinks, maybe even crocks. And what about alcohol? It is important to take into account here that not everyone drinks strong alcohol, therefore champagne, as well as other wines, is an obligatory attribute on the festive table.

Desserts require tea or coffee. As a sweet, of course, in classic version they serve a cake with candles, but how to set a festive table for a birthday inexpensively? After all, cakes are quite expensive. There is a way out: either bake a cake with your own hands, or purchase cakes, cookies or sweets. By the way, a confectionery product prepared personally is better than any purchased product, because the hostess puts her soul into the dish.

Mistress Secrets

To set the table for a birthday party at home inexpensively, but at the same time make it unforgettable, you need to know main secret: competent serving and decoration of dishes. This is not worth your time.

What you need for serving and decorating:

1. Tablecloth. The classic version is white, but other colors are allowed.
2. Tableware. Cutlery and glasses should be polished to a shine. For a solemn occasion, it will be useful to get your best service from the bins.
3. Do not forget about cloth napkins according to the number of guests. They can be laid out beautifully in waves or in the form of shapes.
4. Decorate dishes with herbs, bright berries, like cranberries, peas, olives. For curly and fruit there is a special knife, it would be nice to buy it. If you ask yourself the question: how to set the table for a birthday inexpensively, recipes can be very surprising. And not only not too expensive and tasty dishes described in them, but also presentable appearance. This is due to the fact that the dish is decorated correctly, because when looking at food, appetite should come.
5. You should not conduct a lot of culinary experiments, let everything be familiar, with the exception of one or two dishes.

A festive table should not be complete without a variety of vegetables and fruits. If the alcohol is planned to be strong, then take care of a hearty and plentiful snack.

Little birthday boy

How to inexpensively set the table for a child's birthday so that he is delighted, probably many mothers think.

Actually, it's quite easy. There are several tips, using which you can make an unforgettable celebration for your child and his friends:

• paper dishes of bright colors - safe and beautiful, and you don’t need to wash anything;
• decoration of the room with balls, paper garlands;
• small dishes - mostly canapes, salads in bowls, lavash rolls with various fillings, chicken croquettes - children do not really like to overeat, unless, of course, these are sweets;
• water drinkers can be offered lemonade home cooking, fruit drinks, juices, compotes and milk-fruit cocktails;
• desserts are preferably from cottage cheese;
• salads are best seasoned with sour cream and yogurt.

Everything is suitable for canapes: ham, cheese stars, pepper slices, olives, corn, shrimp. The sweet version is done like this: bananas, grapes, kiwi are pricked on skewers.

From boiled chicken, tomatoes, sweet peppers and hard-boiled eggs, you can make a delicious salad by decorating it in the form of a hedgehog with fly agarics on its back. Lettuce is laid in layers: chopped chicken → tomatoes → grated eggs → chopped peppers. Each layer is smeared with sour cream and yogurt dressing. The hedgehog should be sprinkled with grated carrots, and the muzzle should be marked with egg white. The eyes and nose are made from olives and prunes, and fly agaric from eggs and tomatoes.

It is important to create a festive atmosphere and provide the opportunity for the kids to actively move.

Alternative Ideas

Finally, you can offer a few ideas when there is neither time nor desire to spend time in the kitchen, and the soul needs a holiday. You can set the table for a birthday at home inexpensively and tasty by purchasing prepared food from a cookery or restaurant. This option is especially suitable for a young advanced company. You can order pizza, grilled chicken and salads. Japanese dishes are a little more expensive.

There is also an interesting modern version- buffet. But he is subject to certain rules:

• division into disposable portions;
• dishes should be mostly on skewers;
• you can lay out all kinds of goodies on one large table;
• the main dish should be in baskets or make pancakes, after cutting them;
• if chicken legs are served, then the bone is wrapped with a napkin.

Alcoholic drinks must be uncorked, and glasses and glasses must be provided to guests. But a huge plus will be that the birthday girl does not need to constantly change plates and appliances.

by the most interesting option will be a birthday in nature. Happy people born in the summer months know what that means. Outdoor picnic, barbecue, barbecue, air and sun - what could be more tempting? But here there are nuances:

• salads with mayonnaise - not recommended picnic dishes;
• meat must be marinated in advance;
• take care of drinking water;
• sandwiches and side dishes can be taken from home.

And what a delicious pilaf on a fire or potatoes baked in ashes!

But whatever the birthday person chooses, the main thing is the loved ones nearby.

Probably, every person had such a situation: unexpected guests are standing on the threshold, and in the refrigerator - a rolling ball (yesterday's soup does not count). Of course, etiquette obliges guests, if they suddenly appeared, to bring a treat with them. But what if the guests are not very familiar with the rules of etiquette, or if the snacks brought by the guests are clearly not enough?

In order not to be considered bad (or greedy) hosts, you should always have a stock of some products in your refrigerator, from which you can quickly and easily prepare delicious dishes.

The list of these products is not complicated and low-cost in finance:

1. A can of canned beans in their own juice
2. 2 packs of crackers with the taste of hunting sausages or barbecue
3. Can of sprats in oil or tuna liver
4. 1-2 cans of canned mushrooms

All of these products have a long shelf life, so you don't have to renew them every month.

So, while the guests are on the doorstep, you open all the indicated products and start creating.

Nutritious and amazing delicious salad

Drain the liquid from the beans and mushrooms, transfer the contents of the cans to a salad bowl. Add 2 packs of crackers there, salt, pepper and dress the salad with mayonnaise or vegetable oil. If the house has smoked sausage, then you can add it, after cutting it into strips or cubes. Personally, I have been making such a salad with sausage and mayonnaise for several years, and it always goes with a bang, especially for men.

sandwiches

Here is a classic of the genre: slices of loaf or bread are smeared with mayonnaise, and either sprats or cod liver are placed on top. If there are cucumbers or tomatoes, then add a ring. We decorate sandwiches with fresh herbs.

Here you have already prepared two full-fledged and delicious meals. Next, if there is food in the refrigerator, you can cook the following:

accordion potato

We wash and clean small potatoes (young potatoes can not be peeled), dry them, and make cuts 3-5 mm thick in the form of an accordion. Inside, lightly sprinkle each incision with seasonings, insert small pieces of butter and pieces of sausage or lard inside each incision. We put the potatoes on a baking sheet in the oven at 180 degrees and bake. Ten minutes before readiness, pour potatoes with sauce, mayonnaise or sour cream (as you like), sprinkle with grated cheese and herbs. Place the dish back in the oven and wait for the cheese to melt.

Well, if there is still sausage and cheese in the house, then the feast will be for the whole world! If desired, you can make either classic cuts or hot sandwiches from these products.

Hot sandwiches

Cut into small cubes (or three on a coarse grater) cheese and sausage. Add a little mayonnaise and ketchup to the cheese and sausage, pepper everything well. We spread the resulting mass on slices of a loaf, put slices of fresh tomato on top. We put the sandwiches in the microwave or oven (the second option is tastier) and wait for the cheese to melt.

In general, there is no strict recipe for making hot sandwiches, and the composition of the filling can be any, it all depends on your personal preferences (and the availability of food in the refrigerator). Can add Bell pepper, mushrooms, shrimp, olives and then hot sandwiches can safely claim the title of mini-pizza. Bon appetit and fun gatherings with friends.